Art Diamond's web log

"Conservation Is About Managing People," Not Wildlife

(p. C27) People are hard-wired to be fearful of large carnivores. What's more, it's hard for the poor to see the economic advantage of rewilding. Humans don't like conservationists telling them what they can and can't do with the land that surrounds them. As one conservationist counterintuitively points out to Ms. Fraser: "Conservation is about managing people. It's not about managing wildlife."

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"Humans don't like conservationists telling them what they can and can't do with the land that surrounds them."
Especially so when these 'humans' have the audacity to think that some of this 'surrounding land' is their private property.